It was beautiful outside (not that I spent much time there):
The library was interesting... First, the high-tech shelves in the main library. (Apparently I've been out of it for the past several years--I've never seen this before.)
The shelves are all crammed together:
You push a button to move one set of shelves to the left or to the right:
Then there was the reading room, where you look at old documents and stuff they only have one copy of. It felt a bit like a prison:
- You had to leave all of your stuff in a locker before you went in. You couldn't even take a bottle of water in.
- You could take a pencil--but not a pen.
- There was 24-hour video surveillance.
- You signed all sorts of forms, and observed...interesting...warnings like this: "Slide folders back into box rather than pushing them in with strong downward pressure."
- There was a five-minute limit on the copy machine. Apparently all the enthusiastic researchers can form quite a line...
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